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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Van Badham

One Nation’s lurking attachment to the fringe anti-abortion movement sounds like the start of a horror movie

One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce joins protesters in support of a private member’s bill, which seeks to ban sex-selective abortions, outside State Parliament, Sydney.
One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce was the ‘headline act’ at an anti-abortion event in Sydney on Tuesday. One Nation is pushing ahead with a policy that pledges to ‘seek every opportunity to roll back brutal and extreme abortion law’,’ writes Van Badham Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

Australia’s right-wing populist One Nation party is enjoying a well-publicised poll bump, so it’s time to talk horror movies. We’ll employ our horror metaphor set before the monster has revealed itself, but as dark forces are growing more manipulative and insidious.

Not getting nearly enough play in the sensationalistic coverage around the conspicuously revived Pauline Hanson project is her party’s closeness to Australia’s fringe anti-abortion movement.

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